05 October 2018

What the Kavanaugh Confirmation has Really Confirmed (updated 7oct18)

George Rebane

By the slimmest margin, this morning the Senate voted cloture – to restrict remaining debate on the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh before the vote to confirm scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. Odds are that by this time tomorrow Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed as the newest Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

Here and elsewhere the road to the confirmation vote has led us through some of the smelliest sewers of our federal government while unambiguously revealing the journalistic corruption of our vaunted Fourth Estate. For all intents and purposes, what in these pages I have labeled the ‘lamestream media’, the overwhelming membership of that estate has today successfully morphed into the Ministry of Information (aka propaganda arm) of the Democratic Party.

It is turning out that the real collusion in this confirmation drama occurred in the Democrats’ management of the hearing’s witnesses. The most recent FBI investigation revealed that there was a concerted, coordinated, albeit unsuccessful effort to get Dr Ford to perjure herself on her (lack of) recollection of the facts related to her allegations against Judge Kavanaugh. The larger dimensions of this sordid side of the sewer has yet to play itself out – stay tuned.

But cutting through all the hashed and rehashed details, what can we take away from the confirmation process when the dust settles after tomorrow’s Senate vote? According to my lights, over the last several weeks we have seen incontrovertible evidence that Americans belong to at least two irreconcilable camps anchored by ideological factions with diametrically opposite directions in which they want to take the country. We now speak at each other without the hope of communicating anything – it is all just rehashed testimony to comfort the true believers on both sides, and perhaps to snag the sentiments of someone still puzzling about their own perch.

Any progress seen in this process is just more and more of the undecided and recently awakened making commitments to join this side or that. This morning’s Senate floor statements by its majority and minority leaders erased any remaining doubts that Republicans and Democrats have participated in the same constitutional advice and consent process for the benefit of a common nation. Instead, both sides were hunkered down behind their own barricades, now separated by a no-man’s-land that no argument, were any still to be found, launched at the other could breach.

Since November 2016 the Left has been on the losing side, refusing to believe what the election mandated under a Constitution that long ago lost its common meanings and undisputed role in resolving our political differences. What they warned America that the Right would do after their queen was crowned, they themselves have done ten times over. In every sector where they have ideological primacy, they have doubled down in their characterization of those on the Right as deplorably evil people determined to subjugate America and set up a dictatorship of the corporate elites.

A voice growing louder with such a message is the new Progressive Party USA. These people claim that their supporters comprise over half the American population, and a healthy number of the nation’s legislative leaders. Their party platform reads like a siren song for the cognitively stunted, very similar to the one that Chavez and Maduro successfully sold to the back-country farmers of Venezuela. It is definitely worth a read to see a blueprint for bringing a prosperous nation to its knees. My own assessment is that the PPUSA people are most likely more right than wrong in what they see as the beliefs of a large segment of Americans. Two plus generations of us have now graduated from strongly pro-socialist, anti-capitalist schools. Along with the delivery of STEM education, our citizens’ ability to think critically has atrophied beyond what many of us thought possible just a decade or two ago.

Besides its educational deficits, the progressive brain has been shown to use different neural structures for critical thought. What is reasonable to them in matters of governance and public policy, is more often than not completely unreasonable to us. And because of these seminal difference between us, neither side can present reasonable arguments to the other when attempting to bolster their case. So today we are existentially two nations sharing few mores and values, still attempting to (forced to?) live cheek-by-jowl within common borders. As we have confirmed with the Kavanaugh congressional catastrophe, it is becoming more and more difficult to civilly conduct communal business in the halls of our common government.

I close these thoughts with an intimate local example. Today Mr Don Rogers, publisher of our county’s newspaper – wrote ‘Low road to high court’, a scathing summary of the Kavanaugh confirmation. Mr Rogers, a self-declared Republican who has demonstrated precious few Republican sentiments during his tenure at The Union, agrees that both sides of the confirmation process spent their energies talking past one another. However, he sees perfidy in the process coming only from Judge Kavanaugh and his Republican supporters. No recognition, let alone understanding, of the ‘guilty as alleged’ show put on by the Democrats, not a word of the now emerging Team Ford collusions. Our publisher concludes his j’accuse by being astounded as to why Judge Kavanaugh was even chosen, “a guy who finally showed the nation he was such a partisan punk?”; and then finishes with, “Wait, does this make me a liberal?” Mr Rogers, you have said it most convincingly.

[6oct18 update] Judge Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed by the Senate this afternoon to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. This most sacrosanct function of our Senate – ‘the greatest deliberative body in the world’ – was completed after Minority Leader Schumer delivered his swansong contribution to the debate by opposing the confirmation with a litany of lies about Kavanaugh and the confirmation process, a litany that was not even punctuated by any obvious truths. He was followed by the placed (and paid?) screaming leftwingers in the Senate gallery in their attempt to disrupt the proceedings as they were removed by the Capitol Police. They thus perpetuated the century-long leftists prerogative of militating by mob to overturn established due processes in which they cannot prevail, and which they then seek to overturn by all means available. Such actions in the public forum have been and continue to be the only recourse of collectivists, actions that underwrite the bankruptcy of their ideas.

[7oct18 update] A new litmus test may have emerged for separating conservatives from progressives. Conservatives continue to believe in the due process in which the accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty; progressives hold that narrative supporting beliefs sans evidence is sufficient to prove the accused guilty. This Sunday’s after-action talk shows more than corroborated that discriminant between the two sides – everyone from talking heads, to party activists, to Congress critters reliably and uniformly divided on that litmus test.

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New lows -

Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) wife, Kelley, wrote an open letter to Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) expressing her anguish over the harm done to her husband and the “horrifying” threats the family has faced, which she said Booker encouraged when he told President Trump’s detractors to use acts of intimidation against the president’s supporters.
Kelley began her letter, which CNN published, by telling Booker that she is comforted by the police patrols assigned to their Kentucky home.
Booker has also told people opposed to Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, to “get up in the face of some Congresspeople.”

I now keep a loaded gun by my bed. Our security systems have had to be expanded. I have never felt this way in my life.

***M*** is simply quoting that part of Dr. R's observation that fits the liberal narrative which is all that really matters to liberals. Sexual abuse or misconduct may not have occurred but it could have so...guilty!

Hmmm. Monica McLean’s lawyer is David Laufman, the man who oversaw the FBI’s non-questioning of Hillary over her unauthorized server. Well, by golly, David Laufman is the same dude that Trump fired, ROFLMAO.

Monica lives in Delaware, in the same house that Dr. Ford stayed at before her testimony.

“They should’ve gone after him,” said Delane Lewis, 53, of Maryland, who was marching in protest of Kavanaugh Thursday. “I was screaming at the TV.”
Should have gone after him?
You mean like accuse him of hosting 'rape parties'?
Or maybe a mob with pitchforks?
The fact that there are humans like this thing that live in the US and are allowed to vote scares me more than anything.
After screaming at the TV fails to accomplish whatever this human seems to want to have happen, where does this sort of ignorant anger lead?

Boyfriend??? From 25-30 years ago??? Man, you need to get off the alt-right rooskie bot controlled sites!!!

Pretty much invalidates your proclamation from a couple of days ago about all the ‘’’factual news’’’ mentioned here by pubbers that receive the crickets chorus from non-pubbers.

‘’’I witnessed Dr. Ford help McLean prepare for a potential polygraph exam,” the man said in the statement. “Dr. Ford explained in detail what to expect, how polygraphs worked and helped McLean become familiar and less nervous about the exam.”

Ms. McLean, a former F.B.I. agent, denied the assertion on Wednesday. “I have never had Christine Blasey Ford, or anybody else, prepare me, or provide any other type of assistance whatsoever in connection with any polygraph exam I have taken at any time,” she said in a statement.

Dr. Blasey’s camp also rejected the account. “She stands by her testimony,” a member of her legal team said in a statement.

More Kav nomination BS from our tech honchos...https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/05/facebook-employees-in-uproar-over-executive-who-backs-brett-kavanaugh/
best quotes -
"Sheryl Sandberg said in an internal post: “I’ve talked to Joel about why I think it was a mistake for him to attend given his role in the company. We support people’s right to do what they want in their personal time but this was by no means a straightforward case.”"
In other words - we support what you do in your personal time as long as we support your opinion.
Sounds like Susan would be a great fit in the Chinese or Russian govt.
Also -
"Bosworth also said that Facebook was an apolitical company and that it may not be a good fit for employees who felt the need to drive political change through their work."
Ahem - he was on his own time.
Facebook - apolitical?
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
This whole process has smoked out the anti-American swine that inhabit our country. It should be a wake up call to realize our freedoms and way of governance and judicial action are in peril.

The very rude elevator screamers are paid professionals only looking to make Senators look bad. Don’t fall for it! Also, look at all of the professionally made identical signs. Paid for by Soros and others. These are not signs made in the basement from love! #Troublemakers
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 5, 2018

Well, for one thing it has confirmed that the GOP has morphed into vertibates. We always play nice, get crapped on, and fold. Everytime. Like Lucy holding the football, we give them the benefit of the doubt, leap to embrace any olive branch extended in good faith, and get suckered again. Just like the last time, just like the first time. Oh, we know better, but unwisely throw caution to the wind. Shame on us. It’s who we were.

That was then, this is now.

What the Kavanaugh Confirmation has Really Confirmed? It has confirmed that what Trump has shown us. It’s ok to fight back. Not only is it ok to fight back, it is imperative. The policy of appeasement has historically failed.

Even the R Nevertrumpers have learned they only way is to fight back hard with a stiff upper lip and a steel spine. Sure, they will say to do it in a calmer, nicer tone, but stand firm on the the solid ground of principled stance. Example: Presumed innocent is not up for debate nor is it to be discarded, never to be abandoned.
I heard calls going out to “call your Senators”, but do it in a nice way, speak softly, and no yelling, no name calling. Stand on facts, stand on principle, and do it nicely and you will be heard. You will be heard if only because the difference between the Unmoored Screaming Banshees and the Right will shout volumes in and of itself.

Bottomline. It is required to fight back against this threat to our Constitution, our systems of government, and our separation of powers. It’s ok to say “no”. It is not ok to negotiate with terrorists nor bend to terrorism and personal destruction.

Sidebar: Guy talk: Hey, I never knew those old GOP white men and women had such a great funnybone. and one liners. Intergalactic circus, “lets throw Kavanaugh in water and see if he floats, ole mild manner Orin Hatch telling the screamers to “grow up”, and on and one it goes. Billy goat brain? Good one. :)

It’s times like this I miss Senator Alan Simpson. Bet he would be having great one-liners roll off his tongue.

What they warned America that the Right would do after their queen was crowned, they themselves have done ten times over. In every sector where they have ideological primacy, they have doubled down in their characterization of those on the Right as deplorably evil people determined to subjugate America and set up a dictatorship of the corporate elites.——George Rebane.

This confirmation process has been nothing short of saving our democracy and a republic. This court confirmation procedure has shown us that reasonable people can govern this country over the terroristic demands of a loud, obnoxious, vile minority for whom they believe the rule of law does not apply. A vile minority that does not believe in due process, freedom of speech or religion, or freedom to bear arms. A minority that believes our rights come from government and not from our birth. Today is a day to be celebrated.

from Barry - "A vile minority that does not believe in due process, freedom of speech or religion, or freedom to bear arms. A minority that believes our rights come from government and not from our birth."
Well.
In many areas of the country, they are the clear majority. That's the main reason they want to get rid of the Electoral College. A handful of densely populated urban areas controlling the entire nation.
This already exists in states such as WA, CA, OR and NY.
Long term prospects for upholding the Constitution really are not that good.
I do hope history proves me wrong.

Now he's going to be in trouble with the sjw snowflakes for telling the truth -

“There are social justice warriors who are crazy enough in this country, I fight with them all the time, who… they lend enough credence to this to make people think, ‘Oh, you know what? They’re going to go after my high school record. That’s fair game now.’ And it becomes sort of a privacy thing,” argued Maher.

2) It has confirmed the screaming banshees were paid...but to mention that is anti-Semitic.. It has once again confirmed the Socialists are off their rockers and unmoored from reality...coming straight from the Jew haters themselves, ROFLMAO.

Daily Kos
"Republican senators just voted to confirm the right-wing fanatic, conspiracy theorist, perjurer, and alleged sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh for a lifetime appointment to the United States Supreme Court. It’s a horrific outcome, perpetrated on the American people by a gang of GOP senators who represent a minority of the country—and by admitted predator Donald Trump, who of course lost the popular vote."

Huffington Post
"In his Senate testimony last week, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly lied under oath to defend himself against a credible allegation of sexual assault. He lied about the extent of his drinking. He lied about “boofing” and threesomes. He lied about using his high school yearbook profile to sexually humiliate another classmate. "

Daily Beast
""Asshole Culture has carved out a very clear, unsavory role in American... life. Entitled, wealthy bros who take what they want, treat everyone around them like shit and then rise to positions of power is a common trope in our mass culture""

"Kavanaugh came from a privileged and conservative cohort... They were hard-drinking and reactionary white males as sure of their power as they were of what they hated in the movements around them, particularly self-assured women"

Well, you can't fault them for subtlety.

In the meantime, culture heros are protecting us from the pro-life devils.

Surely, this is a time where many ladies wish to foment a rebellion. So many of us, today, want to burn a system to the ground that could put a man like Brett Kavanaugh, a man accused of multiple accounts of sexual assault, on the Supreme Court. Especially when there is such a strong sense that justice has not been done. The FBI’s investigation was limited. Mark Judge, an alleged witness, was never subpoenaed and made to testify. Ford’s nuanced, precise testimony seemingly could not hold up to a man shouting about how much he enjoyed beer.

scenes 3:46 - The mob yelling "this is what democracy looks like".
I'll take a Republic, thank you.
And the morons wearing the 'Believe Women' tee shirts?
You mean Juanita Broaddrick? Ann Coulter? Stacey Dash?
What a complete bunch of hypocritical idiots.
So - when does Dr. Ford file a police report?
Right.
She has her millions now and she's quite the hero to the left.

In today’s (6oct18) Union a Ms Joan Merriam responds to and goes after our Todd Juvinall for his 29sep18 analysis of the patently un-American case the Dems and lamestream media have brought to bear against Judge, now Justice, Kavanaugh. Mr Juvinall’s article accurately outlined the sins of the congressional Democrats, and in his own inimitable way he ascribed to them appellations accurate and fully deserved – I have been known to be even more colorfully on the mark. Instead of disputing the despicable nature of the Left’s attacks outlined by Juvinall, the lady had nothing to complain about except that she didn’t like the characterizations used by our former county supervisor. But nowhere did she acknowledge, let alone address, Mr Juvinall’s material indictment or the preposterous lies with which the Dems – specifically Senators Schumer and Blumenthal – welcomed the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh. Listening to them, it always comes across that their shit doesn’t stink.

I don't know Scenes,,, They are pinning the loss on the porn lawyer.
They are throwing him under the semi.(It will back up to finish the job) They think they had a chance with Ford. He had to bring MAD Mag. style accusations.

"Capitol Police say protesters arrested today for the 2nd time will not just be released after paying a fine... The repeat offenders will be booked and jailed without the opportunity to be released until Tuesday because Monday is a holiday."

“Listening to them, it always comes across that their shit doesn’t stink.”

The good news is they haven’t a clue. You can’t shame psychopaths. Never change, MSM. The reason you failed is that you just did not get your message out. Try harder, please. You bull pucky allegations and group think showed any rational human being that you were doing a political hit job on Kavanaugh. Keep up the good work.

It's great news for us gun lovers. It's time to have the new SCOTUS lineup, visit all the anti gun laws. Plenty are unconstitutional.
That is DiFi's real peeve. He REAL pro gun.
Where there is good news for most, there is bad news for a few.
Gun makers are really going to see problems. No need to rush out and buy like before. The "git'm before you can't " fear is over.(for now)

Was it just little ole me, or did anyone else notice the confirmation process of advise and consent really brought out the BDS from the usual suspects Hey, time to drop that 100 pound rock you have been carrying around all this time and free yourselves. Life is too short to go off on illegal wars and such.
Well, if you need to rehash it again and get your BDS flared up and all a’twitter, I am here for you. What you say is important. Strike that. That was then, this is now. Talk to the hand.

The unsung hero (one of many) during the Senate advise and consent process was a quiet private citizen from Texas named George Walker Bush. He was calling someone named Jeff Flake every single day, 2-3 times a day, even on Sundays, for the last couple of weeks. Reckon Mr. Bush felt the young Jeff needed some guidance, some fatherly mentorship now that big brother John has passed on. Jeff looked lost and pained.

If you are a Senator and another senator calls, you don’t have to answer. You can get back to them later. Same if the WaPo or NYT calls, or even the networks. But, when a
President calls, an ex-President of the United States from your own party, it’s your patriotic duty to answer the call. Heard ole George gabbed and gabbed and took up two hours of Jeff’s day every damn day. Sweeties dreamies and BDS to all my furry friends who are hurting tonight. Didn’t SCOTUS steal the election from Al Gore? Nightly night.

If you see a commentator claiming to be a “Republican” or “conservative” strategist supporting the liberal mob on this one, understand that they don’t represent conservatives or the Republican Party any longer. More than any other issue in the Trump era, Kavanaugh will be remembered as the “whose side are you on?” moment

Interestingly, it was the so-called moderate or establishment wing of the GOP that manned the front lines. Collins, oft derided as a RINO (Republican In Name Only) by the conservative inquisitors at your local Tea Party meeting, delivered the felling stroke against the furious Democratic campaign.

Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a favorite conservative target for being pro-immigration reform, rallied the party faithful in his rousing committee speech (Democrat Cory Booker of New Jersey claimed a Spartacus moment, or close to it, but Graham actually pulled it off).

“'As we work to define, and seek answers to, those questions, I hope we can all agree on this: Harvard Law School is and must be a place of deep inquiry, a place of intellectual and personal bravery, and—at its best—a place where we listen generously to one another as we commit ourselves to addressing the serious and important questions that are before us,” Manning wrote.

The email to Law School affiliates did not mention Kavanaugh’s time teaching at Harvard, where he has served as a visiting lecturer for more than a decade. It also did not mention the recent push by some students and alumni to remove Kavanaugh from his teaching position.

The Law School announced last week that Kavanaugh would not return to teach his course, titled the “Supreme Court Since 2005,” in January 2019. University President Lawrence S. Bacow later said Kavanaugh chose to leave his teaching position at Harvard Law School of his own volition.'''

Nothing was '''proven'''!!! the WORMS ---White Old Republican Men---running the show did what they have been trying to do all along with Mueller,,,quash the investigation before all the evidence could be found!!!

re M 1034am - We keep noting the ongoing evidence-free allegations from a very frustrated Left - "quash the investigation before all the evidence could be found!!!" Really? Is that something that can be said about every concluded investigation that does not produce 'evidence' desired by some faction?

So Todd you don't actually believe Trump is a Stud. Just a joke right? Applies to you as well. Glad you straightened that out. I mean a former County supervisor saying "Women want what he has. They give what they have." doesn't speak well of our heritage citizenry here in Nevada County.

What the Merrick Garland non-hearing and the Kavenaugh, who will go down as the least popular justice appointment in modern times, farce demonstrates is that the political system can be manipulated so that the will of the people be damned and the will of the monied interests and the minority republican party who represents them, takes precedent over all other considerations moral or otherwise.

And for those of you who are going to chirp that you won the election (which you really did not), Hitler also won. If the Dems turn the tables and win the midterms can we expect the Capital building to mysteriously burn down?

Robert Cross | 09 October 2018 at 11:41 AM
Fifty percent plus one. I learned that the first day I was elected. The left has never accepted democracy as they don't recognize the most basic tenet of that. Win a majority in America and you get to implement your ideas and policies. Merrick Garland was caught in that terrible thing called a majority of the opposite. But the difference is the Republicans never said Garland was raping little girls and doping punch for gang rapes. He was just not brought to the floor for a vote. Your ilk is despicable and slime. You have gone down even further than the gutter. The American people will now punish you and perhaps you will be shouting into the windstorm for a few election cycles.

Paul Emery, you sure are obsessed with me but I like girls so chase someone else.

What Kavanaugh Confirmation has really confirmed? Ah, nothing that we are on these Belarus did not know and discuss already. 3rd Wave Feminism is not about women. It’s about progressivism.

All the unhinged Mob did was repack the “c” with a “p”. They shifted from calling anything and everything on the right from racist to rapist. Now Susan Collins is a ‘rape apologist”, just like Hillary....except Hillary really is a rape apologist. Go figure.

“This bullying tactic is in obvious contradiction with feminism’s historic promise to uphold the individuality and agency of every woman. Can women actually think for themselves, or must they necessarily fall in line with progressive groupthink? The resounding answer from feminists seems to be the latter.”

“What New York Times reporter, what Washington Post reporter was assigned a story by their editors to go see what really happened with Dianne Feinstein, and asked Dianne Feinstein and her staff the sort of questions that would have happened if the Republican Party had done the same thing. Not one,” stated Scarborough.

He added, “I challenge New York Times … editors, I challenge Washington Post editors, I challenge Wall Street Journal editors, I challenge editors across America, write that story. What happened with Dr. Ford’s agreement with a congresswoman, with Dianne Feinstein? Why did they leak that story? More importantly, look at yourself and ask yourself the question, ‘Why didn’t we report on this in real-time when we sure as hell would have reported it if [Senator] Grassley and his office had done the same thing?'”

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned aside appeals of a 2017 lower court ruling by its newest justice, Brett Kavanaugh, that struck down an environmental rule imposed under former President Barack Obama regulating a potent greenhouse gas linked to climate change.

The appeals had been brought by an environmental group and companies that supported the 2015 rule that had limited hydrofluorocarbons, which are used in a variety of products including spray cans and air conditioners.

"And for those of you who are going to chirp that you won the election (which you really did not), Hitler also won. If the Dems turn the tables and win the midterms can we expect the Capital building to mysteriously burn down?"
Didn't win?
Watsa matta Cross? Flunk Civics 1A?
"...can we expect the Capital building to mysteriously burn down?"
I can put down some money on that. How about you, Cross?
Yeah - didn't think so, loser.
Money talks - BS walks.
Take a hike, Cross.
You can slap losers like Cross across the face every 5 minutes and they just blink a lot and keep coming up with BS forever.
They'll never actually challenge anything you might say straight up.
For losers like Cross - you don't even need the 2nd A. A 12 year old girl can trash talk him into the ditch while she's watching re-runs of
Disney movies.

Ahhh.....my mistake dugsKKKi.....that wasn't a teenaged boy! It was a teenaged girl....it makes perfect sense now.....a song written about the creepy old dude in diapers who looks vaguely like Colonel Sanders following her around with a 35mm camera!

Yeah...in that context it's a poignant example of the sorts of pervs that young women have to deal with on a near daily basis!

Looks like George Boardman is the latest to come out of the closet as a "feminist" protector. He does not believe Kavanaugh and totally buys the allegations. What is it about these male feminists that make them toss facts away and believe hysterical people like Avenatti? Too much estrogen in their blood?

The FUE attacks Jeff Ackerman for his Editorial on Kavanaugh. That crazy man Ackerman says due process is an important thing here in America. Oh my! But Ms. Ford had no backup or witnesses and so we all know what happened. We now have a new SCOTUS Justice. But those babes called Invisibles in Wenatchee protested Ackerman for his position. And of course, the metro-sexual from Marin is all in for the babes.Sex change coming?

WOW, the portly one from Marin must be eating those cheetos as he is glued to the computer in his own basement. He has already responded to my comment. The man has no life. Sex change coming? Maybe he and Jim Callaghan need to chat.

Jeff Ackerman is occupying free space in the bigboys head as am I. Hell I may have to get a 1099 for that free rent!